Bye Bye BJP!

Finally!

Thumped, humbled, and shown the door. Booted out of reckoning.
Monkeying around with India's culture is not the way to get votes, and
the people of India have shown the BJP exactly how much they care
about building a temple.

LK Advani I hope, I won't have to see on TV any more. I am tired of
the old fox, I'm really annoyed with his party's lunatics, and I'm
delighted to be able to spit on some maniacs of the BJP I know
personally. I saw no difference between the Taliban and the BJP, and
I was criticized for such an "extreme" view of a "nationalistic"
party.

To me, it is not nationalistic by any stretch of the imagination to
invent sensationalist claims of bringing back Indian money from Swiss
Banks, it is not nationalistic to oppose the "Nuclear Deal" just
because somebody else negotiated it in our favour, and it is
definitely not nationalistic to have elements in your party that don't
want women in pubs.

It is personal. It is personal when I am told that the women of my
country should dress a certain way, should adhere to a tradition some
men believe are more Indian than others, and it is definitely
extremely bloody personal when I am told that our women's freedoms can
be compromised in the name of some archaic vision of India!

I think Sonia Gandhi is pushing it a bit when she says, "People of
India always make the right choice!", but I get the point. The
majority is with the idea of building a secular, progressive India,
that is not dogmatic, not stuck in meaningless tradition, and most
definitely not stuck with religious hullabaloo.

I suppose this is a turning point election, because of two things -
some young people have come forward to vote, some have actually got
involved in politics, but more importantly, the nation has chosen to
give youth a bit more credit, a little more slack, and to actually
give progressive ideas a chance against untrustworthy politics with
agendas instead of real ideas.

But, just in case you missed the big print (we're very good at reading
the fine print these days), this is a verdict for stability. Not the
political stability that the Congress has been touting, but the
stability of the noise levels and fatigue we have to deal with on a
daily basis. Manmohan Singh does not stress us out. Advani
definitely does. The BJP is a bit out of whack and is likely to cause
some noise, along with whatever good they might do. The Congress
might not do anything great, but the ship will sail through the storm.
That is all we want.

We don't need a revolution. That is the point the BJP needs to
understand. That is what the Left needs to get. We just want to sail
forth, quietly and with dignity. We don't need noise. We are bloody
tired making our own lives work. Why would we want some political
party setting forth agendas and dictums that are bound to ruffle
feathers, cause riots, and cause disruptions of all things normal?

The Congress is by no means a brilliant political cohesive. But it is
enough for now.